Magic Words : I want to be a cat... - The Chicago Poetry Center

Magic Words : I want to be a cat…

To start off our first week at Clissold’s after school poetry club we talked about some of the different things that poems can do. This is a brief list of what the amazing 1st, 2nd and 3rd graders came up with: 1. Poems can help us to speak up for ourselves. 2. Poems can be about things we love. 3. Poems can be about things in nature. 4. Poems can sometimes rhyme. 5. Poems can be about people we love. 6. Poems can help people. Then we read Magic Words by Nalunguiaq, an Inuit Poem, and wrote poems about the power of words and what our own magic words would be. Enjoy this week’s poet!

After School Poetry Club 1st, 2nd and 3rd Grade

My Magic Word Zalayla

Hi!
Can you turn me
into a tiger?
I want to be a tiger
I want to be a tiger because
I love how their body looks
and how they can see.
And I also want to be a cat.
I want to be a cat because I kinda
love how they scratch people. Also,
my magic words would be:
“Give me my grandma back please.”
I really love her so much. We used to make
strawberry pancakes together. That word would
make God bring my grandma back.